13154: Guess What? You Can’t Guess Your Way To Success

Raw transcript:

there are lots of ways to pursue
Excellence when it comes to performers
when it comes to on camera when it comes
to voice
over there is one way though that isn’t
your best bet and we’re going to talk
about that in this episode of the vo
Heroes
podcast getting great training getting
excellent
coaching uh not over spending on gear uh
understanding how all of your tools work
understanding how the business Works uh
getting your mind uh appropriately
positioned to be able to handle how our
business treats the people that that
toil in it they’re all great ways of
pursuing Excellence when it comes to
being a voice
Talent one way that I would kind of wave
you off of is guessing
and I see an awful lot of people doing
that and the phrase that I heard the
other day was you can’t guess your way
to
success um sometimes it takes effort to
go find
information sometimes it takes effort to
Wade through the stuff that you find and
look for the stuff that makes the best
sense at least for you and that effort
is sometimes s you know kind of hard for
people to put themselves to because it
seems like it’s never ending we’re
always being presented with new options
we’re always being presented with new
tools there’s a new microphone out
there’s a new piece of software out uh
somebody’s going to tell you how to
create characters there’s a new way of
studying you know I come up with new
things an awful lot I get
it but just sort of throwing your hands
in the air and going I guess this will
work I I guess this is the right mic to
have I guess this is the amount of money
I need to spend on my booth or my space
or whatever you know I I don’t think
that’s your your best option guessing I
just don’t think it’s no matter what we
do I mean this is something that’s
applicable to everything uh guessing
your way might work but it’s hardly
optimal and I just want
to
give you the the Rope to haul in the
best answers take the time to weed out
the junk take the time to weed out what
people have posted on YouTube that they
think is right because they’re just
guessing too okay um you will save so
much time this is really the the prize
at the end of this you will save so much
time Time by spending a little bit more
time in the beginning of your process as
opposed to Simply guessing or thinking
well that makes sense to me and just
going with what appears to have been the
first thing you found or the highest on
the Google search returns or whatever
really take a moment and avoid the
guesswork avoid the Mayes avoid the well
it looks right to me really take a look
at how things stack up against the other
options that you have that will save you
an incredible amount of time in the long
run it may take a little bit more time
in the beginning but it’ll save you a
lot more in the long run and I can’t
tell you how doing a little bit of
research or maybe a little bit more than
a little bit of research can be really
useful to what we do especially what we
do as performers you know does that make
sense to you um if you’re uh if you’re
uh having any questions or comments
about this we’d love to see it in the
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